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If you are looking for Christmas presents, auction houses have options that
will make the usual high street and web purchases look terribly bland. Not
only are these items often rare or unique, but they also have long-term
potential as alternative investments.

Here is Times Money’s pick of ten of the best lots for different tastes and
budgets in forthcoming sales.

Raymond Chandler, The Long Good-Bye (1953)

A first edition of Chandler’s classic, packed with Philip Marlowe’s biting
one-liners: for instance, “I belonged to Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a
banana split”. It has striking cover art and